Since 2021 PhD student, Institute of Material Culture, dissertation topic (working title): "History-forgotten" Auschwitz selfies on Instagram? Negotiating the (in)appropriateness of selfies at sites of Holocaust tourism

2015-2016 Semester abroad at the Nicolaus Copernicus University of Toruń, Poland(Faculty of Political Sciences and International Studies)

10/2013-3/2021 Master Cultural Analyses CvO University of Odenburg

2011-2013 Extension subject B.A. Material Culture: Textiles CvO Uni OL

2009-2013 Dual-subject Bachelor of Philosophy/ Art and Media CvO Uni OL

since 4/2022 Research assistant at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Women's and Gender Studies (ZFG)

WS 21/22 Lecturer at the Institute of Philosophy, CvO Uni OL(Seminar "Critique of Tourism")

since WS 21/22 Lecturerat the Institute of Material Culture, CvO Uni OL(exercises "Einführung ins Wissenschaftliche Arbeiten", "Schreibwerkstatt. Tips and tricks for working in cultural studies")

9-11 2021 Course instructor VHS Aalen, Baden-Württemberg(learning modules "Introduction: Intersectionality" and "Sexism" for an online diversity training for Aalen University - Technology and Economics)

9/2021, 2-3 2022 Project assistant at the Museum Bessarabian German House, Stuttgart(creation of interview videos for the special exhibition "Multiethnic coexistence in Bessarabia and Dobruja")

4/2019-8/2022 Project assistant TraGS Transnational Perspectives in Gender Studies, CvO Uni OL

9/2016-8/2022 Research assistant at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Women's and Gender Studies, CvO Uni OL

2012-2019: Various tutorials (CvO Uni OL):

- "Introduction to Scientific Work" in the M.A. Cultural Analyses
- " Gender and Flight" in the area of specialisation module "Forced Migration - Gendered Perspectives in Theory and Practice"
- " Gender Competences in Theory and Practice" in the B.A. Gender Studies
- " Introduction to Theoretical Philosophy" in the B.A. Philosophy
- "Problems of Practical Philosophy" in the B.A. Philosophy
- "Theory and History of Visual Media" in the B.A. Art and Media

2012-2015 Student assistant at the Institute of Material Culture CvO Uni OL

Since 2013 part-time self-employed with the sewing label "MythenDinge"

Publication, in preparation:
Kronschläger, Thomas; Rickwärtz, Ninja Christine; Roth, Anna Theresa; Schlechter, Pia (eds.): "Doing Knowledge - Hervorbringung von Genderwissen im Kontext Hochschule".
Schriftenreihe L'AGENda, published by LAGEN, Landesarbeitsgemeinschaft der Einrichtungen für Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung in Niedersachsen, Leverkusen-Opladen: Barbara Budrich. Expected to be published in 2024.

In preparation, accepted (peer review): Schlechter, Pia: "Social media as places of gender knowledge production. Perspectives of Gender Studies students on the inclusion of queer_feminist experiential knowledge in academic teaching".
In the above-mentioned anthology.

Kutinka, Renata; Schlechter, Pia (2023): "Herfotzragend vulvastisch Que(e)rulieren" (2023).
In: Klaassen, Oliver; Seier, Andrea (eds.): QUEERULIEREN. Disruptive moments in art, media and science. Berlin: Neofelis, pp. 161-166.

Schlechter, Pia: "Showing, denouncing, negotiating. An intersectional perspective on the discourse on selfies in concentration camp memorials". In: Foundation of Hamburg Memorials and Places of Learning in Memory of the Victims of Nazi Crimes in co-operation with the Working Group of Concentration Camp Memorials in the Federal Republic of Germany (ed.): Digital Memory. New perspectives for remembrance work. Contributions to the history of National Socialist persecution (4). Göttingen: Wallstein, pp. 165-178.

Schlechter, Pia: "#neveragain - Never again, but what? Holocaust remembrance by Ukrainians and international tourists in Instagram selfies at the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe in Berlin". In: Dumbrava, Vasile; Șarov, Igor (eds.): Places of remembrance and competing cultures of remembrance. Historico-political conflicts in Ukraine and the Republic of Moldova. Leipzig: Publications of the Moldova Institute Leipzig Volume 10, pp. 17-40. Online-pdf: https: //www.moldova-institut.org/_files/ugd/7a47e4_6bb3a2e5921c4214bc72654a8c4fc03e.pdf.

“Connecting Technologies: Transnational queer_feminist movements on social media?”, 30 October 2024
Lecture as part of the B.A. Gender Studies series of lectures, ‘Gender – Knowledge – Practices’. Inter- and transdisciplinary perspectives in gender studies, Winter–Spring semester 2024/25, CvO UOL.

“Connecting Technologies: Transnational Feminist Movements on Social Media”, 19 September 2024
Lecture at the International Summer School “The Internationalisation of Gender Studies”, CWGS (The Centre for Women’s and Gender Studies), DSI-NRF SARChI Chair in African Feminist Imagination, ZFG Oldenburg. 19–20 September 2024, NMU, Nelson Mandela University, Gqeberha, South Africa.

“Trans-personal Gender Knowledge Production in the University as a Social Space”, 24 May 24
with Thomas Kronschläger (Braunschweig University of Technology), Ninja Christine Rickwärtz (University of Vechta), Anna Theresa Roth (Hannover University of Music, Drama and Media)
Working group at the 22nd Conference of the KEG (Conference of Institutions for Women’s and Gender Studies in German-speaking Countries), 23–24 May 24, Freie Universität Berlin.

“Working Group on Degree Programs | Safe Spaces at All Times!”, 24 May 24
with Maria Furtner (Innsbruck), Helga Hauenschild (Göttingen), Sylvia Pritsch (Oldenburg), Sarah Zapusek (Graz)
Working group at the 22nd Workshop of the KEG Conference of Institutions for Women’s and Gender Studies in German-speaking Countries, 23–24 May 24, Freie Universität Berlin.

“Well-connected to your PhD – creating knowledge together in the field of gender studies” ( 18 April 2024)
with Thomas Kronschläger (Braunschweig University of Technology), Ninja Christine Rickwärtz (University of Vechta), Anna Theresa Roth (Hannover University of Music, Drama and Media)
Workshop at the 13th Lower Saxony Gender Studies Doctoral Candidate Day organised by LAGEN, the State Working Group of Institutions for Women’s and Gender Studies in Lower Saxony, on the topic “Solidarity rather than loneliness – well-connected on the path to a PhD”, 18 April 2024, Hanover University of Applied Sciences and Arts.

“Keeping Them in ‘Their Place’. Online Shaming of Women and Other Forms of Gender-Based Violence on Social Media” (23 November 2023)
In-Contact Seminar Series HERvoice. Honesty – Empowerment – Resilience, Department of Cultural Heritage, University of Bologna (Ravenna, Italy).

“Working Group on Degree Programs: Requirements in Teaching and Learning Spaces and Gender Studies Curricula”, 17 November 2023
with Helga Hauenschild (Göttingen), Sylvia Pritsch (Oldenburg), Sarah Zapusek (Graz)
Working group at the 21st Conference of the KEG (Conference of Institutions for Women’s and Gender Studies in German-speaking Countries), 17 November 2023, online.

“Linking Gender Studies with (student) Real-Life Experiences” (8 November 2023)
with Lotta Bluhm, Nora Lynn Bock, Mo Haldenwang, Aulikki Laurich, Miriam Voigt
Lecture as part of the series of lectures“Doing Knowledge – Doing Gender. Inter- and transdisciplinary perspectives in gender studies”, winter semester 2023/24, BA in Gender Studies, University of Oldenburg.

“Revealing, Exposing, Negotiating. On the historical and cultural engagement with selfies at concentration camp memorial sites” ( 7 November 2023, online)
Online lecture, University of Regensburg, Department of History Education.

“#nowar – but which war? Voices of Ukrainians in selfies on Instagram at the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin” (20 July 2023)
International conference : Commemorating the Second World War in the Young 21st Century. 20–21 July 2023, Institute for the Public Understanding of the Past at the University of York, in co-operation with the chair of Modern and Contemporary History at the University of Bonn, University of York (England).

“Who Represents the ‘Right’ Memory? An Intersectional Perspective on the Shaming of Instagram Selfies at Holocaust Memorials” ( 13 June 2023)
International Conference: Public History Summer School,^6th international conference on public history, 12–16 June 2023, Historical Institute of the University of Wrocław in co-operation with the Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History at the University of Luxembourg (C2DH), the Zajezdnia (Depot) History Centre (Wrocław), the International Federation for Public History and the Commission for Public History of the Committee of Historical Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Wrocław/Breslau (Poland).

“#nowar – but which war? Voices of Ukrainians in selfies at the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe in Berlin in summer 2022” (9 December 2022)
At the 12th Gender Research Day on 9 December 2023, organised by the ZFG Centre for Interdisciplinary Women's and Gender Studies, CvO University of Olsztyn.

“Profiling Perspectives on Gender Concepts” (31 May 2022)
with Dr Sylvia Pritsch
Project week from 31 May to 3 June 2022 as part of the EU project “FREE – Female Academic Role Model Empowerment, Equality and Sustainability at Universities in the Mediterranean Region” at UNED, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, the National Open University in Madrid, Spain.

“Selfies at Concentration Camp Memorial Sites” (26 November 2021, online)
Conference: Digital Memory. New Perspectives for Memorial Sites for Victims of Nazi Persecution. 25–26 November 2021, Hamburg Memorial Sites and Learning Centres Foundation / Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial.

“You fucking cunt, be serious! Brilliant ideas and vulvastic proposals for que(e)r-ulating with unruly artistic strategies and disidentifying linguistic practices” (2 July 2021, online)
with Renata Kutinka (Berlin)
Conference : Que(e)ruliert! Practices of Disruption in Art / Media / Academia. 2–3 July 2021, Institute of Art and Visual Culture, CvO University of Oldenburg.

“Gender on/under Fire: Transnational Feminist Perspectives on the Corona Pandemic” ( 30 June 2020, online)
With Prof. Dr Sheila Meintjes (South Africa), Prof. Dr Paula Banerjee (Kolkata), Prof. Dr Fatima Sadiqi (Morocco), Dr Lydia Potts, Brigitte Boomgaarden
Online round table as part of the event series ‘Where Gender Burns’. The current relevance of gender studies in academia, culture and society, organised by the ZFG, CvO, University of Oldenburg.

“#Yolocaust: (Il-)legitimate representations of memory. Gender-based assessments of selfies at the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin” ( 22 November 2019)
At the 9th Gender Studies Day on 22 November 2019, organised by the ZFG, CvO University of Oldenburg.

“Transnational Perspectives in Gender Studies (TraGS) – Digital Building Blocks for Transnational Teaching” ( 14 November 2019)
with Dr Sylvia Pritsch
Conference : ‘Buzzword Digitalisation – Critical Perspectives on Digitalisation in the Context of Gender and Diversity’, LAGEN Annual Conference (State Working Group of Institutions for Women’s and Gender Studies in Lower Saxony) in Leer from 14–15 November 2019.

‘But the Philosopher is Just a Child of His Time’. The Tradition of Structural Exclusion of Women in the History of Academic Philosophy” ( 19 August 2019)
Summer School on Sexualities, Cultures and Politics, 18–23 August 2019 in Belgrade, Serbia, organised by the IPAK-Centar (Research Centre for Identities, Politics and Cultures).

“‘But the philosopher is, after all, merely a child of his time’. The structurally entrenched exclusion of women* in the history of academic philosophy” ( 23 November 2018)
At the 8th Gender Research Day on 23 November 2018, organised by the ZFG and CVO at the University of Olsztyn.

“Research-based learning in cultural studies of gender and queer studies: experiences with a project module in the MA in Cultural Analyses at the Institute of Material Culture” ( 9 June 2017)
With Dr Lüder Tietz, Felix Kappeller, Jannike Bohlen
Conference on Research-Based Learning in Ethnology and Cultural Studies, organised by the project ‘Research-Based Learning as a Degree Programme Profile’ (FLASP), University of Bremen, 8–9 June 2017.

“#Yolocaust. Holiday selfies and the culture of remembrance at concentration campmemorial sites” ( 25 August 2015)
At the 10th European Summer University at the Ravensbrück Memorial Site, ‘Photography in Concentration Camps. Practice, Function and Tradition, 23–28 August 2015.

“Dress Practices of the Oldenburg Philosophy Student Council” (19 February 2015)
At the student conference for the MA in Cultural Analysis , ‘Dressing Difference: Cultural-Analytical Perspectives on Dressing Practices and Norms’, 19–20 February 2015, CvO University of Oldenburg.